Free album, if you'd like.
Radiohead stick it to the record company and go at it on their own. You pay what you want to get
In Rainbows, the brilliant new album that takes a bit of Thom Yorke's solo sound and a slow-cooking Radiohead, together, again. It's good to hear Radiohead as a band, since
Kid A, coming a bit off of their neurotic journey into an atmospheric, albeit languorous sound. Drums, guitar, piano, ether – all combine in a glass flask, and escape slowly, wafting opaque smoke, bringing beautiful music to my ears. "Warm"? "User friendly"?
(Pitchfork review) Nah. It's just good stuff.
When was the last time you stole from Sony BMG? Chances are, when you transferred a song to your iPod from a music CD that you actually paid for is when. Greed knows no bounds. Apparently, Sony aren't making enough money from music sales. They want you to repeatedly pay for every copy you make of the song. Will they start charging for every listen too? It can't be too far off, seeing as how impoverished the Sony BMG CEO is becoming. How about face the music – the business model for the recording industry has already changed. You can take your
payola and stuff it. And you know what, bigwig record labels? I'll never buy music from you again, just in case, I, you know, "steals just one copy" of the music I already paid for in order to bloody well listen to it. There are plenty of generous people who will just GIVE it to me without greed or the need for huge amounts of cash. So tell me, if I download it once to my hard drive, never make a copy again, and maybe share it, is that stealing?
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teenbucks – now invading your local coffee house
Eeewee. OK, I realize one day I will have my own gawky one to contend with, how about for the moment let's keep them away at least at a 2-mile radius? What's the coffee house coming to? Now marketing to the nearest teen that will be all a-flutter about their latest adolescent crush, or how nobody understands them because they've hit 13, and if it wasn't for this delicious double mocha latte I'd go and kill myself, all in hyper-drive, on a caffeinated rush. Make that a double espresso shot EEEEWWWEEE. I'm not big on
Starbucks coffee – personally, I think it's a horrible burnt-roast taste. I, however, am partial to the green tea frappucino, although I wish it was less syrupy and soy-based. Well, maybe I just like to read while I'm there and not really drink their drinks too much. There's always something to complain about because their menu isn't tailored for my tastes specifically. I guess I could go sit somewhere else then, but what if the trend catches on and every coffee house in the district is going to be overrun with caffeine-intoxicated kids, what then??? Don't get me wrong, I'm going to try my
bestest ever to have a good relationship with my own someday-teen. I have scenarios in my brain that we'll be able to talk decently, I'll let him do his thing, I'll do mine. He won't have to be seen around town with me because I know I'll be embarassing someday, hopefully not too much, but isn't that the point? Teens go HERE, adults go THERE. Do not mix. Volatile and flammable if shaken together. You know what, give them their own Teenbucks. That way, you can drop them off at the corner, they learn about the café lifestyle, discuss the virtues of
Kant myspace pages, you never have to be seen in their presence, and then, you can go to your own coffee house and read the paper in peace. They lived happily ever after, the end.
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Free album, if you'd like. Radiohead stick it to the record company and go at it on their own. You pay what you want to get In Rainbows, the brilliant new album that takes a bit of Thom Yorke's solo sound and a slow-cooking Radiohead, together, again. It's good to hear Radiohead as a band, since Kid A, coming a bit off of their neurotic journey into an atmospheric, albeit languorous sound. Drums, guitar, piano, ether – all combine in a glass flask, and escape slowly, wafting opaque smoke, bringing beautiful music to my ears. "Warm"? "User friendly"? (Pitchfork review) Nah. It's just good stuff.
